Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-01-08

to speak for us or by frank opponents.
Faith will be kept with him in the
future, the south holds her reason
and integrity. Applause.
THE SOUTH HAS KEPT FAITH WITH
THE NORTH.
But have we kept faith with you ?
In the fullest sense, yes. When Lee
surrendered--I don't say when John
ston surrendered, because / Under
stand he still alludes to the time
when he met Gen. Sherman last as
the time when he determined to
abandon any further prosecution of
thestruggle"-when Leesurrendered,
| say, and Johnston quit, the south
became, and has been since, loyal to
this union. We fought hard enough
to know that we were whipped and
in perfect frankness accepted as
finalthe arbitrament of the sword
to which we had appealed. The
south found her jewels in toad's
head. The shackles that had held
her in narrow limitations fell forever
when the shackles of the negro slave
were broken. [Applause.] Under
the old regime the negroes were
slaves to the south, the south was
slave to the system. Thus was gath
cred in the hands of splendid and
chivalric oligarchy the substance that
should have been diffused among the
people, as the rich blood is gathered
at the heart, filling that with affiuent
rapture, but leaving the body chill
and colorless. LApplause.]
The old south rested everything on
slavery and agriculture, unconcious
that these could neither give nor
maintain healthy growth. The new
south presents perfect democracy,
the oligarchs leading into the popular
movements social system compact
and closely knitted, less splendid on
the surface but stronger at the core
"a hundred farms for every planta-
ton, fifty homes for every palace
and a diversified industry that meets
the complex age.
APEoPLE EMANCIPATE By DEFEAT.
The new south is enamored of her
new work. Her soul is stirred with
the breath of a new life. The light
of a grander day is falling fair on her
face. She is thrilling, sir, with the
consciousness of growing power and
prosperity. AS she stands full-statur-
> ed and equal among the people of the
earth, breathing the keen air and
looking out upon the extended hori-
ION, she understands that her emanci-
> patton came because, in the inscrut-
able wisdom of God, her honest pur-
pose was crossed and her brave armies
were beaten. Applause. This is
said in no spirit of time-serving and
: apology. l should be unjust to the
south if / did not make this plain in
this presence. The south has nothing
to take back-nothing for which she
has excuses to make. In my native
town Of Athens is monument that
; crowns its eternal hills-a plain white
b shaft. Deep cut into its shining sides
is a name dear to me above the names
of men, that of a brave and simple
4 man, who died in a brave and simple
i faith. Not for all the glOries of New
> England, from Plymouth Rock all
the way, would exchange the herit-
age he left me in his patriots death.
: To the foot of that shaft / shall send
4 my children's children to reverence
u him who ennobled their name with
) his heroic blood. But, sir, speaking
q from the shadow of that memory,
u which honor as / do nothing else
y on earth, / say that the cause in
u which he suffered and for which he
u gave his life was adjudged by higher
and fuller wisdom than his or mine,
and l am glad that the omniscient
God held the battle in His almighty
{ hand and that the American union
3 was saved from the wreck of war
. Loud Applause.
e His Uncle Was Right.